All faith consists essentially in the recognition of a world of spiritual values behind, yet not apart from, the world of natural phenomena.

Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.

But the instinct of hoarding, like all other instincts, tends to become hypertrophied and perverted; and with the institution of private property comes another institution-that of plunder and brigandage. In private life, no motive of action is at present so powerful and so persistent as acquisitiveness, which unlike most other desires, knows no satiety. The average man is rich enough when he has a little more than he has got, and not till then.

The happy people are those who are producing something.

It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.

The fruit of the tree of knowledge always drives man from some paradise or other; and even the paradise of fools is not an unpleasant abode while it is habitable.

God does not always punish a nation by sending it adversity. More often He gives the oppressors their hearts' desire, and sends leanness withal into their soul.